Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency:
The paper reviews trends in health-care expenditure and assesses the main forces underlying the increase since 1960. It then describes and evaluates various health-care reforms. The report argues that top-down budget controls appear to have had some success in reducing the growth in health-care spen...
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| Summary: | The paper reviews trends in health-care expenditure and assesses the main forces underlying the increase since 1960. It then describes and evaluates various health-care reforms. The report argues that top-down budget controls appear to have had some success in reducing the growth in health-care spending but, to be sustainable, they need to be supported by microeconomic reforms. Significant improvements in micro-efficiency and effectiveness can be obtained by improving incentives facing health-care providers. Policy developments in a few leading countries suggest that a system where funders/insurers act as purchasers, contracting with competing health-care providers, is a promising model for reform. A statistical annex assesses whether differences in institutional arrangements for funding and providing health care explain international differences in health expenditure ... |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (126 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm |
| DOI: | 10.1787/338757855057 |
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| spelling | Oxley, Howard Verfasser aut Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency Howard Oxley and Maitland MacFarlan Paris OECD Publishing 1994 1 Online-Ressource (126 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier OECD Economics Department Working Papers The paper reviews trends in health-care expenditure and assesses the main forces underlying the increase since 1960. It then describes and evaluates various health-care reforms. The report argues that top-down budget controls appear to have had some success in reducing the growth in health-care spending but, to be sustainable, they need to be supported by microeconomic reforms. Significant improvements in micro-efficiency and effectiveness can be obtained by improving incentives facing health-care providers. Policy developments in a few leading countries suggest that a system where funders/insurers act as purchasers, contracting with competing health-care providers, is a promising model for reform. A statistical annex assesses whether differences in institutional arrangements for funding and providing health care explain international differences in health expenditure ... Economics MacFarlan, Maitland ctb https://doi.org/10.1787/338757855057 Verlag kostenfrei Volltext |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency Howard Oxley and Maitland MacFarlan |
| title_short | Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency |
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